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ICML
2004
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Learning Bayesian network classifiers by maximizing conditional likelihood
Bayesian networks are a powerful probabilistic representation, and their use for classification has received considerable attention. However, they tend to perform poorly when lear...
Daniel Grossman, Pedro Domingos
AI
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Controlled generation of hard and easy Bayesian networks: Impact on maximal clique size in tree clustering
This article presents and analyzes algorithms that systematically generate random Bayesian networks of varying difficulty levels, with respect to inference using tree clustering. ...
Ole J. Mengshoel, David C. Wilkins, Dan Roth
IJCAI
2003
13 years 6 months ago
When Discriminative Learning of Bayesian Network Parameters Is Easy
Bayesian network models are widely used for discriminative prediction tasks such as classification. Usually their parameters are determined using 'unsupervised' methods ...
Hannes Wettig, Peter Grünwald, Teemu Roos, Pe...
CVPR
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Learning Bayesian Networks with qualitative constraints
Graphical models such as Bayesian Networks (BNs) are being increasingly applied to various computer vision problems. One bottleneck in using BN is that learning the BN model param...
Yan Tong, Qiang Ji
ICANN
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Expectation-MiniMax Approach to Clustering Analysis
Abstract. This paper proposes a general approach named ExpectationMiniMax (EMM) for clustering analysis without knowing the cluster number. It describes the contrast function of Ex...
Yiu-ming Cheung